..Future studies are warranted to further enhance our understanding of factors that affect attentional bias as appetitive responses towards smoking-related stimuli might be an important target for therapeutic interventions...

Increased activation of the ACC during a spatial working memory task in alcohol-dependence versus heavy social drinking

..Whereas the hypothalamic regulation of energy homeostasis by endocrine feedback signals has been widely investigated, its interplay with mesolimbic reward-associated pathways represents a rich field of future research...

The effect of pictorial warnings on cigarette packages on attentional bias of smokers

..Our findings support the hypothesis that the schizophrenia-related risk variant of rs11819869 is involved in various aspects of impulsivity, and that this involvement occurs on a behavioral as well as an imaging genetics level. ..

MR spectroscopy in opiate maintenance therapy: association of glutamate with the number of previous withdrawals in the anterior cingulate cortex

..Our results indicate that differences with regard to drinking-related variables as well as cognitive functioning seem to modulate attentional bias and need to be taken into account in models of drinking maintenance...

Avoidance of alcohol-related stimuli increases during the early stage of abstinence in alcohol-dependent patients

Sabine Vollstädt-KleinDepartment of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine at the University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, GermanyAlcohol Alcohol 44:458-63. 2009